Exponential growth

Bacteria grown in the lab provide an excellent example of exponential growth. In

exponential growth, the populations growth rate increases over time, in proportion to the
size of the population.
The key concept of exponential growth is that the population growth rate the number of
organisms added in each generationincreases as the population gets larger

Logistic growth

Exponential growth is not a very sustainable state of affairs, since it depends on infinite
amounts of resources (which tend not to exist in the real world).
Exponential growth may happen for a while, if there are few individuals and many resources.
But when the number of individuals gets large enough, resources start to get used up, slowing
the growth rate. Eventually, the growth rate will plateau, or level off, making an S-shaped
curve. The population size at which it levels off, which represents the maximum population
size a particular environment can support, is called the carrying capacity, or KKKK.